The Misguided Freakout About Basement-Dwelling Millennials

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Why is it always assumed that because you're in college you're there on your parents' dime? And even if you are, what's wrong with that? Society is better off the more educated the populace is...

The point of the article is that while more people aged 18-30 are 'living at home', the entire phrase 'living at home' is completely disingenuous and the conversation is normally held to take shots at the youngest adult generation with implications of laziness, entitlement, etc.

When in reality any 'spike' in kids living at home is clearly correlated with a different take on education than what the generations before had.

Where they are after school would require a little more research - do you have information that says they're still living at home for a significant period of time? (I say significant because it's not abnormal to live at home for 6 months post-graduation while trying to look for a job... for example)

I'd like to see the numbers of 30+'s that you mention, I have not seen them before. Is this a new trend, as your post seems to imply?

The bottom line is it isn't the epidemic it's made out to be, and the entire conversation is missing very important context to go along with the numbers.